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☞ Best wishes for 2018! Winter Update, little by little.
☞ Detailed book reviews for available items are now back up (links, and prices, in stocklists pages).
☞ The page Original Prints, Posters, Drawings & Artworks has just been vastly updated with tons of new collectible items (and more to come).
☞ And A Japanese Book is now on Instagram.

Remarques & avis / Review — One year of the life of a small, remote village in the mountains of Akita prefecture in the early 1950s through the daily life, the capital moments and traditional celebrations of the rural community: meals, baths, harvest, wedding, New Year, school, etc., in a profusion of fine monochrome photos by Ichiro INOUE. A great volume of the collection Iwanami Shashin Bunko.

Reproduction and use obviously forbidden without the copyright owner's consent. After all, it's somebody's work: shame on those who steal it.

News in Short

As some of you have already noticed, prices (attractively revised) are displayed again (work in progress) on AJapaneseBook. Detailed book reviews for available items have also been restored: links will be found in stocklists pages.

A selection of Japanese books and myself are also to be found, within opening hours, at Chez les Libraires associés in Paris. Feel free to drop by. Please contact us beforehand if you are looking for specific books or are interested in specific artists.